Second official meeting between the representatives of Bimbo and those of the workers of the Valladolid factory and the second time that this Tuesday they get up without getting closer to positions. Thus, with the Employment Regulation File (ERE) already registered by the multinational with the Territorial Labor Office to suspend its activity in the industrial zone of San Cristóbal, the Works Council and the signature They will see each other this Wednesday at Serla (Labor Relations Department) with the aim of reaching an agreement on the resolution of the conflict which seems complicated.
And that’s it Bimbo emphasizes that its projects go exclusively through “closure” of the Valladolid factory to “concentrate” the activity in other factories where it manufactures the same products. Puente Genil (Cordoba), Madrid and Barcelona These are the possible destinations to which the production lines of Donuts, Donettes, Bollycao or Tigretón which are until now produced in the capital of Pisuerga are called to travel.
Something that employees continue to oppose, as they did on the first day, September 18, when the company informed them during a normally ordinary meeting of its closure plan.
And there it continues, with the rejection of employees and institutionswho united to display their “absolute opposition” to this end of activity which would return the 166 direct workers and 40 others via of subcontractors.
At least the company, after a “long, difficult and tough” meeting with the Valladolid City Hall, the Junta de Castilla y León and the Central Government, “opened up” in search of an “alternative” for the Valladolid factory, although everything indicates that, if this is achieved, it would have to go through another company that will resume production, since Bimbo emphasizes that its plans are those of a closure for “organizational and productive” reasons. .
That same year, it closed its doors in Verger (Alicante), from where it relocated production to Barcelona. Even the opposition of the 90 employees of the equally historic factory did not change Bimbo’s plans.
“They are not economical”, criticize the workers’ representatives, who find no reason to remain unemployed with a maximum horizon of February 2025, since the multinational of Mexican origin has in its projects a mapped out roadmap that places between the end of this year and the first two including months to permanently turn off the ovens.
